Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 11, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba B4 sunday free August epic Story trains Success draws flak if Naomi judds Story could inspire a to Shania trains might Merit a big screen epic growing up poor with our Brothers and Sisters in Tim singing in local clubs at age raising her siblings after her parents were killed in an Auto Accident when she was Twain got a record Deal with Mercury Nashville and released Shania Twain to Little notice in but everyone noticed the the woman in Twain collaborated with British Poprock producer Robert John Bryan it and the team not Only came up with one of the past years biggest Selling they also got mar the album has proven to be successful both commercially and Twain won the Academy of country musics album trophy for the woman in me and also was named Best new female but has taken flak for her flir glamorous and even though she wrote or co wrote All the songs on some suspect that Shes a puppet for a powerful she spoke with los Angeles times correspondent Richard Cromelin about those reservations and about her Bond with country Why did you respond to country no music As a child a i related a lot to it i could relate to the tensions that can be in a household when theres not enough Money to go Gro Cery shopping i would listen with a mature you grow up fast in an environment that a Little under priv in what Way a just Little like if you dont have a lunch for then youve got to make up excuses at that if you were to Tell the teacher that you dont bring a lunch because we cant afford maybe they would have had the childrens Aid come to our House and were Gonna get separated things like that dont allow you to just be a kid All the you have to be response i often just escaped with my instead of going out to play during recess i went to the music room and kind of vented my Energy there and kept things my music was a very positive escape for you wrote or co wrote All the songs on the Why is that important to you a because its the Way i can express myself the most directly its been the goal right from the Ive always been a song from the age of 10 years old Ive been performing my own mater Ial i want people to be getting to know me for what i and the Best Way to do that is through my when there coming from your head and its your its As real As it gets and its As True to you As an artist As it any Man of mine got the kind of response that happens occasion ally when a record really hits a nerve with people there was even an answer any Gal of were you trying to stir things up a i was totally flattered that it Cre ated enough of a commotion for someone to even think of doing an answer song i think it was a really healthy Tongue Incheck Battle of the what were your expectations when you were ready to release the album a we knew that it was Gonna turn because we knew that it was but which Way would it turn Heads they could have turned away As easily As they turned for we didst try in any Way to be like anyone else or fit we were just trying to be and we just decided to take the we knew it was Gonna be heading in the direction of definitely having an Edge to were you concerned that mutts reproduction would make it too Poprock for the country audience a his Favourite music to listen to a pastime is so he was the one that would lean More toward the steel and the fiddle and the and i would be the one that was always anxious to take it a Little bit on my Down time in listening to everything else but country so that i dont become you need to get fresh if you limit what you listen then i think you limit your youve had trouble getting Credi for a couple of one is that people suspect that youre just a vehicle for this powerful song writer and record a that i always have believed in proving in not afraid to do one thing peo ple forget is that we we rent in love when we he have even begun working with me had he not Felt that i could pull my peo ple think we fell in love and then Mutt decided to work with but we met As and Mutt is always saying to Why dont you Tell people you wrote most of this music we should have credited you with More than half of this because you wrote More than i did on this Katz Able to spot a Deal continued from b1 i never saw my because he worked the night Katz hed come Home and id be ready to go to but i remember hed make me my own Little it was still hot from the i thought i had life by the How Many Guys had their own Pumpernickel who died in taught her self to read and and she eventually found a Job working As a sales clerk at another All the the family slowly moved up the Northend economic from Dufferin to Burrows to West Kildo the Young excelled in literature and mathematics at he even claims to have been somewhat of an his special ties were the hurdles he Learned Early about jumping Over outrunning the when he graduated from West Kil Donan Katz was accepted at dentistry real my Mother wanted me to be a he that comes from the concentration during those you were most Likely to survive if you were a doctor or a because the nazis needed doctors and its that survivor but it want Katz was determined to make he wanted to be a business make a million Little did he know he would have to go broke of q its last and sunbeams Are bathing katzes backyard at a Barbe Cue for Winnipeg Gold eyes a nearby table is teeming with a Buffet of food cordon City councillor Al Golden is flip Ping a flock of Young members of the Gold eyes dance Are frolicking about the like the Beer commercial it Doest get any better than katzes lifestyle is pretty easy to As Long As you can keep Fly to Oakland to catch a few athletics maybe go to Jet to new York or Chicago to see a take a summer Holiday in that a Long Way from its also a Long Way from the Early when Katz then involved in the real estate business lost almost his former partner sued Katz and million in assets and properties were Katz walked away with but Katz never doubted he could rebound he knew he could spot a still i believe i could Start Over Tomor Row if i had its not an ego he you just know you can go out there and make not Only for you and other Ive always had that Katz has a motto procrastination is suicide on the instalment dont be afraid to if one Deal fails and Hes had a few bombs can you say which lost about another one is Only a phone Call at that the Katz everybody still talks about this magical i want to make a Mil lion people i cant make a million he when i go out and speak to the Young kids or the Young i let me ask you a do you believe you can make can you do it 10 times can you do it 100 then you can make a million that the i just try to make a Little at a Katz took that and bought a then flipped it for a significant he had a new he started out running the Transcona country where he ran the bar and flipped Katz got another taste of the entertainment in the Early he formed Showtime product promoting smaller like the Pointer Sisters and Harry Chapin at the Centennial concert Hall or the convention Cen show time became Nite out entertain ment and the Pointer Sisters became Alabama and Kenny Nite out went from the concert Hall to the Winnipeg then came the Rock festival Sun which became Nite outs Cash Nite out evolved into a major attracting Mega acts like the rolling Pink Floyd and Paul at the same Katz purchased and renovated the historic Walker which became a major Winnipeg entertainment All the critics have sniped quietly that Katz Only makes deals with other Peoples to use a baseball he Doest dive for ground he Doest get it is an accusation Katz has heard and this is a Man who still holds a mortgage on the Walker Ive always used my Money and nothing but my he the Only venture that i Ever did involving anybody was the Winnipeg Thunder basketball that a myth out anything that Ive been involved with has been primarily my own Money or Money that Ive borrowed or people say Ive just Learned to live with in Katz often turns Down investors because Many of his Ven Tures especially in the sports and entertainment Fields Are risky at this risky business has a tie to katzes Well publicized if youre he the bundle you lose is your nobody else gets in the Katz has devel oped a reputation for dating women with three common characteristics there there usually for Mer and there in 44 years Katz most of the people Ive gone out with Are probably in the category of 25 to but Ive never looked at i May be but i think like most 30 Katz is now dating Belinda Stel i Emnot afraid to put up my own Money Shes a former Shes Shes Gor Katz explains some but you know what Shes a great a lot of people look at the situation and Why is he always going out with Young women i some times have to Why would any body even ask that question if i can find someone whom i happen to her age should be irrelevant to i look for Beauty in and but if she happens to be perceived by them others Asim not going to hold that against then Katz he talks again about his wish to get married and raise a something he plans to do in the very near a lot of people envy my single he in the i envy i think it would be great to have a wife and a couple kids and have somebody to share everything its a two Way you think its great being in my shoes i dont know if you would love them that Sqq but if you really want to talk about Rocky try Katz and the Winnipeg the Winnipeg enterprises hates my he after a seven year struggle and numerous failed attempts to land a triple a team Katz finally took Solace in the born again Northern turns out it was a Blessing in Katz was never a dig Ball but he knew the he recognized the Opportunity to make a once i made up my to me it became a dream and i wanted that dream to come he while critics might refer to it As a watered Down semipro the league has been an overwhelming financial the Gold eyes made an estimated in their first year of and just Over last the Gold eyes average Over attendance per in this a professional sports franchise that makes Money is an yet Katz has always been at Odds with his landlords and Winnipeg enterprises this for the Wec raised the rent at Winnipeg stadium by far the worst Park in the league to from so Katz has another dream a real baseball Park with real grass and real Concession and Hes got a potential partner in the Forks renewal which is in the Market for a activity the at the would be a stage for the symphony or childrens of Katz believes his company could manage the which would Cost Between million and Mil and be a major Katz realistically believes the Ball Park could be built for the Gold eyes 1998 asked How much Money Katz would Ante for the he replies whatever it takes to get the Ball Park if that Means so be if that Means million or so be Well raise the Money i have no concerns about that ill Tell you because this is one Hundred per cent legit and up front and people Are putting in their own in not afraid to put up my own unlike some of these other projects that took place where nobody was putting up any of their own i Mec got million from the City just to Market their were not asking the City for any Katz adds i know there Are peo ple out there trying to kill this Winnipeg enterprises is at the top of the do anything to protect their everybody knows its no Wec Board member and City councillor Bill Clement has a counter proposal to build a Ball Park adjacent to Winnipeg stadium As part of a million project to upgrade the stadium and Clement believes his proposal would not Only renovate existing but consolidate them in the same is this our is it realistic Damn Clement when he first presented the proposal in its a Good and it contains some thing for especially the Katz wants to buy out enterprises and build a new Park that can provide natural reasonably priced seats with and a Pic Nic area and no one Here can image How wonderful this project will be and what an asset it will be for our i because in a unless youre a dreamer you wont even begin to image what is that vision Katz getting Rich on another Deal wait a he shoots we Are making Money right so dont criticize a Businessperson for making every Businessperson is there to make that just naivete and stupidity for criticizing somebody for wanting to make you know he Sarcas i want to go out and lose Money so the taxpayer can subsidize forgive me for not wanting i dont want any i want to be so says Sam if you dont believe youve got to be ;